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There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.

Baron de Montesquieu

Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
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Country Freedom Wells
It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.
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Age Birthday People
Great commanders write their actions with simplicity; because they receive more glory from facts than from words.
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Facts Simplicity Writing
Liberty itself has appeared intolerable to those nations who have not been accustomed to enjoy it.
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Enjoy Government Liberty
To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.
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Delight Hours Philosophical
Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.
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Day Happy Independence Law Liberty
Politics are a smooth file, which cuts gradually, and attains its end by slow progression.
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Cutting Politics Progression Smooth
In the birth of societies it is the chiefs of states who give it its special character; and afterward it is this special character that forms the chiefs of state.
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Character Giving Leadership
Man is a social animal formed to please in society.
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Animal Men Society
Solemnity is the shield of idiots
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Idiot Shields Stupidity
There are countries where a man is worth nothing; there are others where he is worth less than nothing.
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Country Men Nothing Worth
There is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude… we cannot give someone else greater power over us than we have ourselves.
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Gratitude Men Ties
When a government is arrived to that degree of corruption as to be incapable of reforming itself, it would not lose much by being new moulded.
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Corruption Degrees Government
Virtue is necessary to a republic.
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Republic Virtue
As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.
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Equality Men War
Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one’s wit at the expense of one’s better nature.
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Favors Talking Wit

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